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It is common knowledge that due to the fact that electric cars are powered by electric motors and a battery pack and not a combustion engine, they produce zero exhaust emissions and no harmful pollutants on the road.

However, certain groups were concerned that the carbon-intensive process of battery manufacturing could have a negative impact on CO2 emissions and may not be any cleaner over the vehicle's lifetime.

Now, new research has suggested that an electric vehicle can produce up to half the amount of greenhouse gas emissions over a car's lifetime, competed to a fossil-fuel car.

Emissions produced by cars are thought to contribute to the premature deaths of around 40,000 people in the UK every year.

This significant reduction of emissions could be a key reason for drivers to make the switch to EVs.

In addition to this electric cars are exempt from certain taxes and levies being introduced in the UK.

Best electric cars on sale today in the UK

Best electric cars on sale today in the UK

This summit will bring forward ideas toincentivisethe uptake and adoption of electric vehicles across the world.

Aurelien Schuller from French consulting firm Carbone 4, claimed that "there is no time to waste in the UK’s transition to EVs”.

“Thanks to an already-significantdecarbonisationof its electricity generation through coal phase-out the UK is already in a position to make significant cuts in the greenhouse gases from its transport sector,” he said.